DEPARTMENT SURGERY No. 2
HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT
According to the Charter of the Kyiv University of St. Vladimir in 1842, developed with the participation of MI Pirogov and MO Karavaeva, the medical faculty had 10 departments, 2 of them were surgical: 1) the department of theoretical surgery with ophthalmiatry, 2) the department of operative surgery with surgical anatomy, the doctrine of bandages and surgical clinic. The opening of the first university surgical clinic took place in 1845, teaching at these departments was conducted under the guidance of Professor MO Karavaev.
In 1849, practical classes were introduced for fifth-year students in the hospital surgical clinic on the basis of the Kyiv Military Hospital. Therefore, in 1850, Professor Christopher Yakovlevich GUBBENET, a graduate of the University of Dorpat, was invited to the Department of Theoretical Surgery and Ophthalmiatry with a hospital surgical clinic. He was the first in Kyiv to use ophthalmoscopy, performed a lens removal operation, and studied syphilidology. At the beginning of the Crimean War H.Ya. Gubbenet with a group of doctors and volunteers from medical students went to Sevastopol, where he worked simultaneously with Nikolai Pirogov. In Sevastopol, under his leadership, about 3,300 wounded were operated on. Nakhimov, Istomin, Totleben addressed him. From 1860 to 1869 he headed the Kyiv Society of Physicians. In 1870 H.Ya. Gubbenet resigned. Thanks to H.Ya. Gubbenet was the creation in Russia of a branch of the “Society for the Care of Wounded Warriors” – the prototype of the modern Red Cross.
In 1870 at the Department of Theoretical Surgery with a hospital clinic on the recommendation of MI Pirogov and Mykola V. SKLIFOSOVSKY, who after graduating from Moscow University in 1859 worked as a senior doctor of the surgical department in Odessa, was invited from MO Karavayev. In 1863 he defended his dissertation “On pericardial blood tumors” at Kharkiv University. He studied abroad with Virchow, Langenbeck, Nelaton, Simson. But he did not impress for long with his surgical art and eloquence. Kyiv. Already in 1870 MV Sklifosovsky was sent to the Franco-Prussian War, and after his return in 1871, he was transferred to the St. Petersburg Medical and Surgical Academy. In the name of MV Sklifosovsky named the Research Institute of Ambulance in Moscow.
Therefore, in 1872, Sergei Petrovich KOLOMNIN, a doctor of medicine and associate professor at the St. Petersburg Medical and Surgical Academy, was invited to teach surgery at a competition for three years (until 1875). He was an excellent surgeon and an experienced scientist, had 33 scientific papers. He loved and knew military field surgery. Нe studied desmurgia, in particular, studied the healing properties of specially prepared peat moss as a material that helps to clean purulent wounds. In addition, S.P. Kolomnin has an honorable place in the study of blood transfusion. He was the first in the world to perform an intra-arterial transfusion of defibrinated blood in the field (1876).
Later, in 1876-1877, and then in 1882-1883, the hospital’s surgical clinic was headed by a graduate of Kyiv University, private associate professor Oleksandr Stepanovych YATSENKO. In 1875, V.A. Karavaev recommended him for the position of extraordinary professor of the department. A worthy candidate was elected, but not approved by the Minister. Мerits of OS Yatsenko in surgery, particularly in the field of skin plastics, is undeniable. Yu.Yu. Janelidze in his monograph “Skin transplantation in Russia and the Soviet Union” wrote that OS Yatsenko was the first to perform a skin transplant in 1870 according to Reverden. He had vast surgical experience at the time – more than 5,000 hand-made operations. He took part in the Serbian-Turkish war, where he used asepsis and antiseptics.
In 1878, Oleksandr Hrystoforovych RINEK, a Czech by birth, was elected head of the department. In 1864 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Medical and Surgical Academy and was left at the Department of Surgery. In 1867 he became a doctor of medicine, 2 years internship abroad. In 1872 he was appointed resident of the Kiev Hospital, then was elected associate professor. After his election as a professor of the department, the clinic had 80 beds in a military hospital. In 1881, after leaving the university VA Karavaeva, O.Kh. Rinek moved to his department as a professor. According to contemporaries A.H. Market in the technique of performing operations, surpassed many of the best European surgeons.
In 1883 Fedor Karlovich BORNHAUPT was elected to the department of hospital surgery of the clinic. A native of Riga, he was educated in Dorpat. There, in 1867, he became a doctor of medicine. Trained with Folkman. The talent of F.K. Bornhaupt was revealed in Kyiv. Borngaupt as a teacher, clinician, surgeon. His lectures were clear, in medical activities showed great erudition and experience. He made a great contribution to the introduction of asepsis and antiseptics in surgical clinics. In 1902, F.K. Bornhaupt resigned.
In 1903, a pupil of the University of Kiev, a student of F.K. Borngaupt, private associate professor Mykola Markiyanovych VOLKOVYCH, who worked as the head of the surgical department of the Alexander Hospital. His dissertation on rhinosclerosis, which he completed in 1889, still retains its scientific value. M.M. Volkovich was a brilliant scientist, surgeon, and excellent clinician. He left behind more than 100 scientific papers. He worked as the head of the hospital (until 1912) and then the faculty (until 1922) surgical clinics. He developed operations to restore the nose from the skin of the finger, close the vesico-vaginal fistula, remove hemorrhoids, developed a method of treating fractures, proposed his tires, identified new clinical signs of chronic appendicitis, studied gangrene of the extremities. His monographs on appendicitis, gallstones, and fractures and dislocations have served as a reference book for surgeons for generations. Mykola Markiyanovych became an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and one of the founders of the Kyiv Union of Surgeons and was its permanent chairman for 20 years.
In 1912, a private associate professor of Moscow University Oleksiy Petrovich KRYMOV, a student of AABobrov and SI Spasokukotsky, was elected head of the department. During the First World War he worked as a consultant to hospitals on the South-Western Front. His lectures on military field surgery reflect the many-sided practical experience of treating the wounded. After the war he continued to teach. He published a monograph “The Doctrine of Hernia”, in which he proposed his method of radical inguinal hernia surgery. He developed operations for varicose veins of the spermatic cord, the method of nephropexy, published a series of works on gunshot wounds to the skull, chest, abdomen, blood vessels, gas infection. O.P. Krymov became an academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the USSR, Chairman of the Ukrainian Society of Surgeons. Later, Alexei Petrovich headed the Department of Faculty Surgery.
In 1920, the Medical Faculty of Kyiv University was merged with the Women’s Medical Institute. The Department of Hospital Surgery was headed by Associate Professor Ivan Alexandrovich ZAVYALOV, who in 1903 graduated from the Medical Faculty of Kharkiv University, a student of MP Trinkler. He is the author of 48 scientific works. The most popular of them is the monograph “Surgical Etudes”, in which the author highlighted the basic canons of emergency surgery.
From 1921 to 1930, the Department of Hospital Surgery was headed by Oleksiy Hryhorovych RADZIEVSKY, a graduate of Kyiv University, a student of A.Kh. Rinek, who from 1907 headed the Department of General Surgery, and then the Department of Faculty Surgery of the Kiev Women’s Institute. Oleksiy Hryhorovych was especially interested in urology. In addition, he developed a method of fixing the rectum when it falls out. O.G.Radzievsky has published about 50 scientific papers, including “On the surgical treatment of uremia”, “Are there autonephrolisins?”, “On the issue of femoral vein ligation”, “140 cases of removal of the prostate gland in its hypertrophy”. During this period (1921) the clinic of hospital surgery was moved to the October Revolution Hospital.
From 1930 to 1941 the department was headed by Professor Ivan Petrovich KORKHOV, a graduate of Kharkiv University, a student of NT Trinkler. In those years the clinic was renovated, it had 100 beds; equipped with good equipment and apparatus, received laboratory service. IP Korkhov is the author of 55 scientific papers. His proposed segmental novocaine blockade in obliterative endarteritis is still used in the clinic.
During the Great Patriotic War and the evacuation of the Kyiv Medical Institute to Kharkiv, and then to Chelyabinsk (1941-1944), the department was headed by Professor IS KOGAN.
In 1944, the Kyiv Medical Institute returned to Kyiv. In the postwar period, the clinical base was the second department of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology. Mykola Omelyanovych DUDKO, a pupil of the Kyiv Medical Institute, Doctor of Medical Sciences, was elected the head of the department. IA Zavyalov and EG Chernyakhivsky, who during the war ran a guerrilla hospital. After the renovation of the October Hospital, the clinic of the Department of Hospital Surgery was again located on its base. During this period, the main activity of the department was the organization and provision of emergency surgical care to the population of Kyiv. Monograph of Professor MO Dudki “On the treatment of perforated gastric and duodenal ulcers” was one of the best guides for students on this topic. Mykola Omelyanovych became an Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR, the author of 76 scientific works, in 1941 he proposed to administer intravenous anti-gangrenous serum in large doses for anaerobic infection.
In 1962, Professor Mykhailo Markovych KOVALYOV, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, a graduate of the Donetsk Medical Institute, was elected Head of the Department of Hospital Surgery. Research interests MM Kovalev was devoted to: urolithiasis, emergency surgery of the abdominal cavity, surgery of peptic ulcer disease, diseases of the extrahepatic bile ducts, goiter. Under his supervision, 17 doctoral and 53 candidate dissertations were defended. Mykhailo Markovych is the author of 9 monographs and more than 400 scientific works. Since 1972, the clinical base of the department has become a clinical hospital № 4 in Kyiv.
In 1985 and 2006 the department was headed by Honored Scientist of Ukraine, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, Professor Valerii M. Korotkyi, a surgeon of general profile, who performed the complicated and unique surgeries on the stomach, pancreas, blood vessels, biliary tract, intestines. Being a department head V.M. Korotkyy made a significant contribution to the development of many scientific fields of surgery. These surgery operations in the cases of liver cysts, portal hypertension, traumas of spleen, pancreas, complicated ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcer, acute and chronic pancreatitis, cholelithiasis, pancreatic cancer, acute intestinal obstruction, common forms of peritonitis. These directions were reflected in more than 400 scientific papers, 40 patents for invention, three books, three doctoral and 9 master’s theses. Professor V.M. Korotkyy was the first person who began to perform surgery for peptic ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcer. Today being a professor of the department V.M.Korotkyy continued to share his surgical experience with young surgeons.
During 2006-2020 the head of the department was a graduate of the Kyiv Medical Institute, MD, Professor Borys G. Bezrodnyi. The main areas of research of the department were surgical treatment of diseases of the hepatopancreatoduodenal area, laparoscopic surgery, peptic ulcer surgery, chronic venous insufficiency of the lower extremities, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in surgical diseases. In 2008, the department was renamed the Department of Surgery № 2. Under his leadership, 5 PhD theses were defended, two doctoral dissertations, the author of more than 250 scientific papers and 30 patents for inventions. Today prof. Bezrodny BG continues to work as a professor of the department, passes on his extensive experience to students, young teachers, interns and surgeons.
On December 31, 2020, professor Ihor V. Kolosovych, was elected Head of the Department of Surgery №2. Pupil of the laureate of the State Prize of the UkSSR, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Professor V.Korotkyi, Prof. Kolosovych IV passed the way from the clinical resident of the department, graduate student, assistant professor, associate professor, professor and finally – the head of the department. Author of about 400 scientific papers, 58 patents of Ukraine, member of the editorial board of the journal “General Surgery”, the International Society of Surgeons (ISS / SIC), the European Pain Federation (EFIC), winner of the NAS Prize Ukraine, delegate to numerous international foreign scientific forums. Scientific interest of prof. I.Kolosovych consists in the treatment of complicated peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, minimally invasive surgery of the biliary tract and spleen. Under his scientific supervision four candidate dissertations were completed, doctoral and candidate dissertations are being prepared.
Today the staff of the department has 20 employees, including 4 doctors and 16 candidates of medical sciences, 3 employees have the academic title “Professor”, 11 – “Associate Professor”. The department has published 22 textbooks, 5 of them – in English.
The department has 9 clinical bases, including 5 municipal non-profit enterprises (KMKL №4, KMKL №17, Kyiv Maternity Hospital № 5, Kyiv City Center for Radiation Protection of Kyiv from the Chernobyl Accident, Center for Primary Health Care №1 Shevchenkivsky district of Kyiv), State Institution “Amosov National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery”, State Scientific Institution“ Center of Innovative Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ”, National Military Medical Clinical Center“ Main Military Clinical Hospital ”.
The department conducts scientific research in the field of organ-saving surgery for peptic ulcer of the stomach, duodenum and spleen (Prof. Kolosovych IV, Ph.D. Chemodanov PV, Assoc. Prof. Ganol IV), plastic and reconstructive surgery (Prof. Teply VV), surgery of tumors of the pancreato-biliary zone (Prof. Bezrodny BG), surgical phlebology (Assoc. Prof. Petrenko OM, PhD Korolyova HO), diagnosis and treatment of acute pancreatitis (Assoc. Prof. Sidorenko R .A., Assoc. Prof. Ganol IV), mini-invasive surgery of the biliary tract (Assoc. Prof. Tsyganok AM), acute intestinal obstruction (Assoc. Prof. Moiseenko AI), endoscopic technologies (Assoc. Prof. Slobodyanyk VP).
